Posted in People who don't know any better on Sep 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Someone knocked on my door. I live in a gated complex, so it’s almost always Fed Ex or the mailman, or some other kind person wanting to give me something. In this case, not. A man with a clip-board said he had some questions to ask me about AT & T. Since I had just […]
Posted in People who don't know any better, Meetings as Theatre, Forest Fire on Aug 19th, 2008 5 Comments »
There were tv crews and everything at the meeting on arsonists tonight. Carolyn Ramsay, of Councilman Tom LaBonge’s office, was at the door handing out important pieces of paper. I reached for one, and she said the agenda was on the seats. There weren’t any seats left, so I held my hand out to her […]
Posted in People who don't know any better on Jun 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
Hell hath no fury like a blogger scorned (and I wrote the book on hell.)
To put it more gently, bloggers have the thirst of desert crawlers (it’s a cartoonist tech thing) when it comes to acknowledgments and links.
So I was feeling sorry for myself, not having been linked anywhere in a couple of days, […]
Posted in Silver Lake, People who don't know any better on May 5th, 2008 3 Comments »
I called Councilman Tom LaBonge’s office on April 11 and left a message for Jullian Harris-Calvin. I also sent 2 emails to him. We both missed once, and then she never called me back for 10 days. She called me on April 25, Friday, at 5:30 PM from her car. UH-OH on her end! I […]
Posted in Silver Lake, People who don't know any better, Everyone's a Photographer on Mar 7th, 2008 12 Comments »
The other night I was running around Silver Lake and it looked lower, but nowhere near the bottom. The Times said the lake is 45 feet deep.
Then last night I saw the bottom! I was shocked! No way the lake is that deep - it looks around 12 feet deep. (Probably the LADWP made up […]
Posted in People who don't know any better on Feb 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
H. David Nahai, new head honcho at LADWP, supports and enjoys the department’s “lactation service.”
The LA Times, in their usual tsking and clucking way, handholds the women participating in this employee program:
About 50 stern-faced mothers who work at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power confronted the agency’s board Tuesday and won the ability […]
Griffith Park, Interrupted
An urban forest was on fire; an urban lake put it out. Griffith Park and Silver Lake in Los Angeles.
